As you use higher versions of Wise Package Studio, the need to make these changes diminishes since many of these exclusions as then standard. In fact, since WPS 4.5x for application for XP, I don’t bother doing this procedure since Wise has done this so well. Until Microsoft make another major OS upgrade beyond XP, I wouldn’t bother. This is currently big time optional.
BTW: You can have many different exclusion lists depending on your situation. (i.e. One for English apps, one for French apps…)
On a Clean PC (ie the Snapshot PC)
-Launch WPS; click on the Tools tab
-Select SetupCapture Configuration
-Configuration file location; click Next
-General settings; click Next
-Directory to watch; click Next
-Build exclusion list; select Automatically build exclusion list
-Click Next
-Minimize all Wise applications (SetupCapture Configuration cannot be minimized)
Click Next
-Launch Notepad, WordPad, Paint, Regedit, Play a wav file, Browse the Internet
-Leave SetupCapture Configuration running and Reboot
-The SetupCapture Configuration window comes back on; click Next
-Now click Next to record what to ignore during packaging
-File exclusions; review and click Next
-Registry exclusions; review and click Next
-VirtualOS, click Next
-Copy C:\WINNT\WisePSSC.ini to the Wise Share Point and rename appropriately.
-Edit the resulting WisePSSC.ini file with SetupCapture Configuration. When reviewing, the new entries have Question marks in front so that you can decide if you want to add them or not.
-Convert file exclusions into a folder exclusion for obvious folders like:
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch, local settings\temp, IE cache, etc
-in HKCU hive:
-\SessionInformation (ProgramCount= 3 of programs running during capture time)
-\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad (caused by using WordPad)
-\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Paint (caused by using Paint)
-\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist (caused by Explorer)
-\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU
-\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer
-\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable (Explorer browsing)
-\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams (Explorer browsing)
-\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StreamMRU (Explorer browsing)
-\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket (Explorer browsing)
-\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam (Explorer browsing)
-in HKLM hive
-Software\Microsoft\EventSystem (caused by event viewer entries being added)